J^N   A.CT 

To  dimiBish  the  number  of  exemptions  and  details. 

Ihe  Congress  of  the  Confederate  States  of  America  do  enact,  That 
«o  much  of  the  "Act  to  organize  forces  to  serve  during  the  war," 
approved  February  17,  1864,  as  exempts  one  person  as  overseer  or 
agricullurist  on  each  farm  or  plantation,  upon  which  there  were, 
at  specified  times,  6fteen  able-bodied  field  hands  between  the  ages 
of  sixteen  and  fifty,  upon  certain  conditions,  is  hereby  repealed ; 
and  said  persons  shall  be  liable  to  military  service  upon  the  expi- 
ration of  the  time  for  which  they  received  exemption,  by  reason  of 
having  executed  bonds  for  one  year  from  the  date  thereof;  Provi- 
ded,  That  exemptions  of  persons  over  forty-five  years  of  age  may  be 
granted  under  the  provisions  of  tlie  Act  aforesaid. 

Sec.  2.  No  exemption  or  detail  shall  be  granted  by  the  Presi- 
dent or  Secretary  of  War,  by  virtue  of  said  Act,  except  of  persons 
lawfully  reported  by  a  board  of  surgeons  as  unable  to  perform  ac- 
tive service  in  the  field ;  persons  over  the  age  of  forty  years,  la- 
borers employed  in  the  Nitre  and  Mining  Burean,  in  localities 
where  slave  labor  cannot,  with  safety,  be  employed,  artizans,  me- 
chanics or  persons  of  scientific  skill,  employed  by  or  working  for 
the  Confederate  or  State  government,  and  shown,  by  proper  testi- 
mony, to  be  such  laborers,  artizans,  mechanics  or  persons  of  sci- 
entific skill,  and  with  the  same  exceptions,  all  exemptions  and  de- 
tails heretofore  granted  by  the  President  •r  Secretary  of  War,  by 
virtue  of  said  Act,  are  hereby  revoked. 

Sec.  3.  That  all  skilled  artizans  and  mechanics  who  are  engaged 
in  the  employment  of  the  government  of  the  Confederate  States, 
are  hereby  eserapt  from  all  military  service  during  the  time  they 
are  eo  employed. 


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